Daily Republican., 1887-07-23
NEWS SU MMARY.

The st. Thomas disaster Caused by
Drum kenness.
Within two or three days the guest,
OF the Conanicut Park Hotel in Proyi.
dencs, Rhode Island, have been seized
w1ta diarIhBa, nausea and general de
bility, and the sickness has become 80
general that all have left and the hotel
has been closed. An examination OF
the we'll water supp ly ing the house has
proved 1t to be pure, and the ice used lie
now suspected.
The severest thunder storm for many
years In Richmond, Va. prevailed there
Friday evening, bet cen and Z o'clock
The electrical discharges were almost
continuous, and the lightning struck In
several places. In the lower part OF the
city much damage was done by the
flooding of cellars.
A telegram from BIT Thomas, Ontario,
reports that In the inqnest in connection
with the late rAilroAd disaster witnesses
have sworn "that the engineer WAS un.
der the Influence Of liquor and unfit to
control the train; also, that the conduc.
tor had been drinking, though not in
toxicated."
Yesterday afternoon lightning struck
q rowboat In Princes Bay, d. L., killing
Michael j. Dixon and John P. Ryan of
New York City. Isaac Smith, bath
house keeper at the Bay, was stunned
and remained unconscious for half an
hour.
The fret special transcos tinental fruit
train of ten cars from Californ la passed
through Chicago on Thursday, Ave cars
being dropped there, and the other Ave
taken on 10 New Y ork. The freight on
the ten car loads from San Francisco to
Chicago was So ,000
A large number OF strikers resumed
work in the coke region Friday, but
some Of the strikers refused to 60 to
work unlcss the nOn-uuion workmen
were discharged. The operators refused
to concede this and the men returned to
their homes.
The anniversary of the Woman's
Home M Missionary Society Of the Metho.
dist Episcopal Church was celebrated
on Friday at Asbury Park. Mrs. r
". Goff presided In the morning z and
Mrs. General Fisk in the Afternoon.
George Hoffman, aged IS years, q
prominent brewer OF Baltimore, com
mitted suicide on Friday morning by
shooting himself in the head. He had
suffered from rheumatism for several
years.
The argument to- make permanent the
stay OF proceedings In the case OF Jacob
Sharp, which was to have been heard
on Friday by Judge Potter, in New
York, has been adjourned until Tues.
day next.
Lambert Cuttings, one of the veal
thiest citizens OF Baltimore, died on
Friday at the age Of 80 years He was
short time since adjudged lunatic,
and his estate was placed in the hands
OF q committee.
While men were digging . we'll in
Howell, Michigan, yesterday morning,
natural gas was struck, aud, the flow
becoming lighted, Ga fame as large as q
barrel ascended I'd the height of thirty
feet"
A tornado passed through the woods
in Cheboygan and Presqre Isle Coun-
ties, Michigan, Oh Thursday, which did
great damage to timber. Oa one forty.
a5re tract not tree WAS left standing.
DIR. e. g. Stevens, over 20 years OF
age, was arres ted In BiddefOrd, Maine,
yesterday afternoon, charged with NAL
prac sioe on Miss Mary Hall, "a years of
age. Il is said she cannot recover.
William Miles, Chairman of the Trus'
tees Of the Butte City Miners Union,
WAS killed yesterday by fall of ore in
the Parrott mine, at Butte, Montana.
He was 46 years Of age.
August Schlecher, drug clerk OF
Hoooken, killed himself on Friday with
pruss C acid, becsuse girl with whom
he was in love informed him that sht
was engaged to another.
A train on the Iron Mountain Rail
road In Missouri WAS on Friday morn
ing thrown from the track by cow
The engineer was killed and the passen
gers badly shaken up.
Rear Admiral franklin will be re
tired on the Gath of August next, ant
his retirement will promote Commodore
Gherardi, now in command Of tn,
Brooklyn Navy Yard.
The New Jersey Court OF Pardons or
Friday commuted the death sentence Of
Patrick Quinn, the wife murderer, al
Morristowp, to imprisonment at hard
labor for lie.
Mrs. Hattie Seymour, an aged lady
T was found murdered in her house neal
Nesonville, Ohip, on Thursday night
The motive of the crime was evidently
robbery.
A switch engine and an accommoda
tion train collided in tunrel at Gin
cinnsti Friday and several persons
!, were badly injured.
"Rougn on Rats"